ABOUT THE EPISODE:
Being truly powerful has always involved masterfully exploiting leverage. Leveraging means using borrowed capital, labour or networks to increase the impact of one’s investments, financial or otherwise. For most of human history, leverage was only accessible to those with physical force, or land, or networks, or capital. But leverage has never been as accessible as it is now.
Social media, software and the commoditization of capital have meant that one’s thought, one’s work and one’s financial investments can now be leveraged at essentially no cost. Write an article on Medium and within a day it can be read hundreds of thousands of times for free. Create a new SaaS product, and it can be sold to hundreds of clients, with almost no additional work.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based).
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